Missed Opportunities

Missed Opportunities

Jason Previlon

If you’re lucky, opportunity will come knocking and doors will open for you;

If you’re smart, you won’t hesitate when opportunity presents itself;

But if you’re me, you won’t do any of those things.

Too dumb to see the greatness before you,

Too lazy to take a chance,

In a world were opportunities are few,

you stand before greatness and spit in its face.

Do you not want to wear the white hat?

Shape the world in your image?

You do? …

So, why do you continue to make things extraordinarily difficult for yourself?

Is it because you’re a masochist?

Seeking so much desolation and conflict in the world,

Believing that you can overcome it all like the tragic hero you are.

But you won’t.

Life is not some fairy tale where the heroine always wins.

The world is ripe with hypocrisy were the few good men fall,

And even greater men become martyrs.

You live in a world where people kill for the 'opportunity' to get ahead,

Some die trying.

But here 'we' are, living for the sake of the systems obliteration.

The funny thing is that just because you spit in the face of greatness,

Does not make it any less great.

Though your path may be righteous,

It will surely fail.

If you want to do real good,

Change the system from the inside out.

Be the leader that changes the world,

Not the martyr the made the issue relevant.

So, when you hear the call to greatness do not resist.

Engage yourself in superior thought.

Because you are smart, you won’thesitate, you will become proactive.

Because you are a hard worker, you won’t be afraid to take a chance, and risk it at all for the greater good.

But most of all, because you are 'you',

You will not miss 'any opportunities.'

This poem is about: 
Me
My community
My country
Our world
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